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pring is the culmination of the collegiate and Junior Olympic competitive season, with gymnasts across the nation vying to advance to their Junior Olympic and collegiate regional and national championships. We wish the best of luck and success to these athletes and coaches. The United States has elite gymnasts competing in various World Cup events and preparing for this summer’s national championships.

The core of our sport and organization are these athletes and the thousands of individuals who support and help them learn the sport they love, the life lessons that come from gymnastics and the possibility of achieving their competitive dreams. Our commitment to our athletes and members is why I am addressing a difficult, but very important topic.

As you may be aware, gymnastics has been in the national news in recent months regarding its handling of sexual misconduct issues. I want to assure you that USA Gymnastics cares deeply for our athletes of all skill levels and ages, and the health and well-being of our athletes is of the highest priority. We believe one instance of child abuse – whether at a school, church or gym – is one too many, and we offer our sincere and heartfelt regrets and sympathies to any athlete who was harmed during his or her athletic career.

Keeping athletes safe requires sustained vigilance by everyone – coaches, athletes, parents, administrators and judges. This month, members will receive a mailing from USA Gymnastics, “Together We Can,” and I urge everyone to take the time to read it. “Together We Can” is part of USA Gymnastics’ ongoing efforts to educate the gymnastics community, athletes, coaches, parents and judges about what each of us can do to promote a safe environment for our athletes. Working together, we can make a difference. April is Prevent Child Abuse Month, and for more information on this important topic, go to usagymparents.com and/or usagym.org/safesport.

The U.S. Center for SafeSport opened in early March and serves as an independent third party to handle all child sexual abuse claims for the U.S. Olympic and Paralympic sports, including USA Gymnastics. This independent agency oversees Safe Sport in the United States, similar to how the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency oversees anti-doping in the U.S. Olympic movement. USA Gymnastics has updated its bylaws and is adapting its rules and policies to comply with the Center’s mandates. One key requirement is that USA Gymnastics and its members and staff must report allegations of sexual misconduct to both law enforcement/child protective services and the Center. For more information on the Center, go to safesport.org or usagym. org/safesport.

We work every day to help young people fulfill their potential in a safe environment, and we know there is more work to be done. Here’s a quick overview of efforts already underway.

• Former federal prosecutor Deborah Daniels is conducting the most comprehensive, thorough and independent evaluation of our athlete safety program to date by examining our requirements, mandates and structure to identify ways to strengthen our program and better protect youth. This community-wide effort is designed to examine the culture and governance, and generate recommendations that can help USA Gymnastics strengthen its efforts in this area. We expect to receive her recommendations later this spring.

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• A Policy Review Panel, established by the USA Gymnastics Board of Directors, will further review the organization’s policies and procedures in all areas, and will implement Ms. Daniels’ recommendations once they have been presented to and approved by the Board of Directors.

• USA Gymnastics has created and is in the process of hiring the new staff position of Director of Safe Sport.

• The organization is also initiating a national search for a new president and CEO.

Protecting our athletes requires ongoing vigilance by the entire gymnastics community, and we will continue to refine and improve to make our sport as safe as we can.

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agan Smith and Yul Moldauer solidified their prospects as future leaders of Team USA by taking top honors at the AT&T American Cup at Newark, N.J.’s Prudential Center on Saturday.

Smith’s triumph extends the U.S. women’s winning streak in the event to 15 years, while Moldauer’s win is the first for a U.S. man since Sam Mikulak’s in 2014.

“I didn’t really think about (the streak),” Smith said. “I don’t think about winning, or placing on the podium. I just think about my gymnastics, and that’s why the results came today.”

Smith led the nine-member international field throughout the afternoon, gaining the competition’s highest scores on vault — she did a Yurchenko double full — and floor, where her popular Addam’s Family routine was a hit with the crowd and earned 14.000.

“I really like this routine, I can connect to the crowd and stuff,” the 16-year-old from Lewisville, Texas, said. “I feel like the crowd connects

to me, they clap and they snap, and I really like that a lot.”

She ended with 56.099 points total in the all-around.

“I lost focus, it was just off,” she said of a fall off the balance beam.

“Whenever you have a mistake, you have to brush it off your back and pretend it never happened. You can still keep your events together.”

U.S. Olympic trials and impressing officials at the subsequent training camp.

“After this, we’re taking some actual down time, to get back to basic s ,”

Kim Zmeskal-Burdette, who coaches Smith at Texas Dreams Gymnastics, was glad to see her athlete stay calm and carry on.

“Obviously, no one wants to have a fall, but I’m very proud of her,” Zmeskal-Burdette said. “She’s never been in this leadership position before, and mistakes will happen. The most important thing is, can you turn the page and continue? “ It’s been a busy last eight months for Smith, who was named an alternate to the Rio Olympic team after placing fifth in the all-around at the USA GYMNASTICS | SPRING 2017

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EVENT RESULTS Zmeskal-Burdette said. “As Valeri (Liukin, the national team coordinator) said, Ragan she hasn’t really had time to do skills.”

Asuka Teramoto of Japan, a twotime Olympian, earned solid scores on all four apparatus to place second with 54.231 points. Melanie De Jesus dos Santo of France turned in the best balance beam routine and finished third.

Riley McCusker settled for fifth place and a total score of 52.966 after slipping off of the uneven bars on a release move, and missing her foot on a back handspring leading to her beam dismount.

The 16-year-old from MG Elite lives in nearby Brielle, N.J., and had a large rooting section of friends, family and teammates in the crowd. She admitted that may have added a bit of pressure.

“It definitely wasn’t the best, and it wasn’t what I’ve been doing in practice,” she said. “I just wasn’t paying attention to my routines, a little bit. I had jitters here and there. . . I know I will do much better next time.”

This event is often thought of as a showcase for U.S. women, especially in recent years. But Moldauer and Akash Modi, the Rio Olympic alternate who placed third, nearly stole the show on Saturday.

“This event just puts more experience behind me,” Moldauer, a 19-year-old NCAA standout from the University of Oklahoma, said.

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Akash MODI

“It helps prove I can go up for bigger events, and that the U.S. is still in the running.”

Moldauer’s signature moment came in the last rotation, his high bar routine. The entire arena, including fans, fellow gymnasts and coaches, knew a solid score would give him the win, and all watched intently in near silence. Moldauer responded with a high-flying Kovacs over the bar that gained cheers, particularly from his teammate Modi. His 85.931 total gave him the title by .232.

“That was one of best high bar sets I did this season, and it was good to do it now under the pressure,” Moldau-

er said. “It was a very special routine, I think.”

Perfectionist he is, Moldauer has a laundry list of items he’d like to improve.

“On the floor, I definitely need to stick my landings,” he said. “For pommel horse, it’s always working on that circle, the tiniest details, locked elbows, positions. Vault, it’s landing with your feet together. For parallel bars, it’s hit the handstands and stick the dismounts.”

Moldauer battled Ukraine’s Oleg Verniaiev, a parallel bars gold and all-around silver medalist in Rio,

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throughout the six rotations. Verniaiev earned top scores in three events — pommel horse, rings and parallel bars — but lost ground with a.400 neutral deduction on his floor routine and had to settle for second place.

Asuka TERAMOTO (Japan)

Modi, a Stanford University standout who regularly battles Moldauer at collegiate events, was almost as pleased with today’s results as his rival.

“I’m beyond excited for Yul,” he said. “It shows a good future for USA Gymnastics. It’s great to see American men back on top at the AT&T American Cup.” The 21-year-old mechanical engineering student cited his parallel bar routine, which tied Verniaiev for high score with a 15.033, as one of his best ever.

“I take pride in that routine, I feel I like I have it down and I can do everything in it better than anyone else in the world,” he said. “I think I showed that today, I did a solid routine and stuck the dismount. I’m just happy that I finally get one routine that went exactly the way I wanted it.”

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The NCAA Championship, held in West Point, N.Y., the third week of April, will feature another Moldauer-Modi faceoff. Modi gained the allaround title in 2015; Moldauer won it last year.

Oleg VERNIAIEV (Ukraine)

Melanie DE JESUS DOS SANTO (France)

“Oh, it will be battle,” Modi promised. “We will meet again.”

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REGION 3 TEAM WIN

he Region 3 team, comprised of six junior elite gymnasts from Oklahoma and Texas, won the

2017 Elite Team Cup held at Newark, N.J.’s Prudential Center, earning 327.70 points to edge the Region 5 squad by 4.25 points.

“Most of our routines were hit,” said Alexei Vernyi of Cypress Academy of Gymnastics in Texas. “I don’t know if we counted any misses, maybe horse, but we hit a lot.”

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Vernyi, an 18-year-old senior at Cy-Fair High School, will attend University of Oklahoma on a fullride scholarship. He was especially impressed with the atmosphere at Prudential Center.

“It’s so open compared to other competitions,” he said. “The lighting is good and very even everywhere.

Some meets are very dim.”

Much as the Nastia Liukin Cup does for female gymnasts, this event seeks

NS ELITE TEAM CUP Besides Vernyi, other Region 3 team members included: Gage Dyer, 18 years of age (as of May 31, 2017) high-level exposure and podium per- Yukon, Okla./Bart Conner Gymnastics Academy; Evan Davis, Houston, formance experience.

Texas/Cypress Academy of GymnasThe unique format has nine senior tics; Ian Gunther, Houston, Texas/Cyelite male gymnasts compete along- press Academy of Gymnastics; Grifside nine junior elite men’s regional fin Kehler of Frisco, Texas/WOGA teams. Each team consists of six ju- Gymnastics; David Pochinka, Plano, nior elite gymnasts. Team scores are Texas/WOGA Gymnastics; and Josh based on five athletes competing on Williams, Cypress, Texas/Cypress each event; the top four scores count. Academy of Gymnastics. to give male gymnasts between 13-

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Brandon Briones, a 15-year-old sophomore at Gilbert High School in Arizona, competed for the Region 1 team and won the senior all-around event.

“It was one of the best experiences I’ve had with Region 1, and I got to include a couple of new upgrades I’ve been working towards, and I set them in the set,” he said. “Both parallel bars and high bar, I included new skills.”

Briones will participate in an international assignment in Berlin in early April.

“Including the new skills here, was mainly in preparation for Berlin,” he said.

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BY NICK MCCARVEL hen Kyla Ross and Madison Kocian donned their blue and gold in early January for UCLA in a dual meet against Arkansas, they simultaneously became the first Olympic champions to compete in college gymnastics.

The moment also marked a growing trend in collegiate gymnastics of elite gymnasts competing at the college level, with Olympic champions Kocian and Ross joined by world championship-winners Maggie Nichols, MyKayla Skinner and Sabrina Vega. All five are freshmen this season.

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“To be the first two Olympic gold medalists to compete in college, I’m definitely glad we’re sharing that together,” Ross said of herself and Kocian during a phone interview with USA Gymnastics.

“It’s crazy that we both ended up at UCLA together. It’s different being on a college team… Madison

and I are able to help each other because we can relate so easily.”

There are few that can relate to what Ross and Kocian have been through, winning Olympic gold in 2012 and 2016, respectively, and at UCLA they have Ross’ London teammate, Jordyn Wieber, as a coach on floor to help them further along the way.

But the Olympic and world prowess across the college ranks is giving the discipline an added boost to what has already been a fervent and excitable following, with UCLA drawing a record crowd to its home opener featuring Ross and Kocian, and Utah drawing over 15,000 fans to a dual against Cal in February.

“Having the big crowds and support from everyone, that makes it so fun,” said Skinner, who was on the U.S. team that won gold in Nanning in 2014 at Worlds. “I don’t think we’d be where we are without them. The crowd just gets you

so pumped and ready to go.”

As of late March, Skinner’s Utah was the No. 4 team in the nation, with UCLA at No. 5. It’s Oklahoma, where the 2015 world team champion Nichols landed, that holds that coveted No. 1 ranking. Alabama, which boasts 2014 World team alternate Madison Desch, holds onto a No. 6 ranking.

“The college atmosphere is so amazing. I’m so glad I’m able to experience this kind of atmosphere,” said Nichols in a phone interview. “The whole team is like family. I have so many girls I can fall back on if I’m having a hard time. At every competition, we’re behind each other and only want the best for each other. It’s a great feeling.”

The transition from elite — and for a few of the athletes, a full-time gym schedule — to college has not been easy. After Rio, Kocian juggled duties on the Kellogg’s Tour of Gymnastics Champions, as did continued on page 24...

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FEATURE ARTICLE Skinner, who said she had to pack a semester of school in almost half the time. Ross details 16-hour days that include practice, strength and conditioning, school, tutoring and — of course — naps.

There is also the adjusting from the level and type of gymnastics done in college from that of the elite world.

For Vega, a gold medalist in the team event at Worlds in 2011, it’s all about the small details, and being as perfect as possible on every routine.

“In elite, it’s all about who can bring the biggest skills and hit them under pressure,” said Vega, who competes for No. 10-ranked Georgia. “You think about the little things in elite, but these are the tiny quarter point aspects that are going to get you closer to a 10 and closer to winning the team event, which is what we’re all after.”

Nichols concurs.

“Everything has to be perfect,” she said. “You have to hit every angle. If you want to get the highest score possible, you have to hit everything. Simple as that.”

The college season is also fast and furious, kicking off in January and culminating in mid-April. That means a meet every weekend, and — sometimes — as many as three meets in a single week. It’s much different than the elite schedule, where gymnasts are working towards peaking for only four or five competitions each season.

college. “It’s been a rush, but when you’re part of a team, they all push you to do your best.”

All five of the freshmen said that they have felt the eyes of everyone in the gym on them when they compete, and that the pressure of wanting to hit for their team is much different than what they faced in the elite atmosphere.

“The last time the whole gymnastics world saw me was at the Olympics Games… That was the highest level of my career,” explained Kocian.

“The expectations for me are higher than for my teammates, I think. I had to block all of that out. Any pressure that would get to me, was just pressure that I was putting on myself.”

Kocian has found fun in working closely with Wieber on improving her floor routine as she works towards competing in the all-around, while Ross went viral a few weeks ago when she notched the first perfect 10 of her career on the uneven bars. She was swarmed by her UCLA teammates after sticking her landing.

“Everyone knew right away,” Ross laughed about the score. “Having my team and my coaches believe (in me) and have my back, that made me so emotional. I was really happy to get that first 10 of the season for them.”

Late in March, Nichols and Skinner were ranked No. 1 and 2, respectively, in the individual rankings in the country, showing they’ve adjusted quite well — and quickly.

“Every time I’m about to compete, I just think, ‘This is for the team,’” she added. “You’re not thinking about yourself. You put the team ahead of everything else, and I feel like for me that gives me a different competitive edge. It’s a different pressure situation than elite.”

“Everything is different,” Skinner said about her life now versus her push to make the Rio Olympics team last year, when she deferred starting

Ross has scored two 10.0s on the uneven bars and two on the balance beam, while Kocian notched a perfect score on her signature event, bars,

against Stanford University. Nichols has recorded perfect marks six times so far this season, with two on vault, one on bars, two on beam and one on floor.

It has also renewed the passion for the sport for all five women in different ways. While Vega said that the fewer hours in the gym compared to elite has her wanting to do backflips at midnight, the team atmosphere, community support and college spirit that exists around the sport has her as motivated as ever.

“I find myself loving the competition again,” she said. “I can’t lie and say I don’t get nervous — I definitely do — but it’s a different kind of nervous.

Your team is behind you 100 percent.”

And while women’s college gymnastics will always differ from men’s because of the Olympic pipeline and the different systems that exist at the elite level, Vega sees this season as a new realization for collegiate women.

“It gives college gymnastics another step up,” she said in regards to having herself and the other big names compete. “For me, it’s another reward for all of those years of hard work. I get to have fun in gymnastics again, be a part of an amazing team.

No matter what background you have… you can come into college and do what you love and have fun.”

“Having so many elite gymnasts on the college scene, it shows how amazing college gymnastics is,” added Nichols. “We have these different kinds of opportunities and it’s very exciting. It gives you another chance to excel. (The five of us) are all so happy for each other because we’re having such a great time.”

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USA GYMNASTICS WELCOMES A NEW PARTNER IN OUR SAFE SPORT EFFORTS — THE U.S CENTER FOR SAFESPORT T

he U.S. Center for SafeSport opened in early March and is the exclusive authority to investigate and resolve allegations of sexual misconduct for all National Governing Bodies in the U.S. Olympic movement, including USA Gymnastics. The Center has established the SafeSport Code for the U.S. Olympic and Paralympic Movement, which outlines the policies, procedures and scope.

THE CENTER WILL PROVIDE:

• education and training on both abuse and prevention • response and resolution guided by the SafeSport Code for the U.S. Olympic and Paralympic Movement.

Visit SafeSport.org to learn more about the role the Center will play in education and response.

TOGETHER WE CAN…

PROTECT CHILDREN THROUGH A SAFER ENVIRONMENT!

Challenging individuals to hold themselves accountable and recognize what they MUST do is an important first step towards preventing sexual abuse of children. Everyone plays a part in protecting children…

TOGETHER:

YOUTH-SERVING ORGANIZATIONS/ GYMNASTICS CLUBS MUST...

• Establish standards of behavior and protective policies for all participants • Clearly communicate those standards to coaches, staff, volunteers, parents and participants • Address any reported or observed violation immediately • Report suspected abuse immediately to law enforcement and the U.S. Center for SafeSport • Follow hiring and training best practices for staff/volunteers

TOGETHER:

COACHES AND TEACHERS MUST...

• Avoid being alone with a child • Refrain from engaging in communications or interactions that are inappropriate to the coach-athlete relationship • Avoid having physical contact with athletes that is not reasonably intended to coach, teach or demonstrate a gymnastics skill and/or to prevent or lessen injury • Refrain from having out-of-program contact with athletes, including on social media

TOGETHER: PARENTS MUST...

• Talk to their children about appropriate boundaries of interaction with adults • Choose an activity after carefully screening the organization • Review the organization’s safe environment policy and know its safe environment strategies

AND TOGETHER: CHILDREN/ATHLETES MUST...

• Know the difference between appropriate and inappropriate touching • Identify a trusted adult they can talk to • Trust their GUT, if something feels wrong… tell a trusted adult

• Observe and monitor their child’s participation • Report any questionable activities

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uccess is a team effort. For a team to be successful, every member of the team — clubs, coaches, athletes, parents, administrators, officials — can and must do his/her part. If each of us does our part and partners with USA Gymnastics in creating a safer environment for our athletes and children, together we can reduce the opportunity for an abusive situation to develop.

APRIL IS NATIONAL CHILD ABUSE PREVENTION MONTH

Take advantage of the information and materials provided by USA Gymnastics and our educational partners to learn more about this societal issue and taking action to play your part so TOGETHER WE CAN protect our children.

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UL MOLDAUER of Arvada, Colo./University of Oklahoma, claimed the 2017 Winter Cup Challenge allaround title inside the Westgate Las Vegas Resort. Akash Modi of Morganville, N.J./Stanford University, was second, followed

by Allan Bower of Mesa, Ariz./University of Oklahoma.

Moldauer and Modi traded the lead throughout the night with Moldauer coming out on top in the final rotation after posting a 14.500 on the pommel horse. His other event scores were: 14.800, floor exercise; 15.000, still rings; 14.600, vault; 15.000, parallel bars; and 13.000, high bar. He posted a 171.750 two-day total in the allaround. Modi was close behind with a 171.050-combined total, while Bower rounded out the top three with a 169.900.

2016 Olympic alternate Donnell Whittenburg of Baltimore, Md./

U.S. Olympic Training Center, was fourth (167.450), while Donothan Bailey of Mission Viejo, Calif./U.S. Olympic

Training

Center,

fin-

ished fifth, totaling 166.000 in the all-around.

Moldauer also took individual honors on still rings and parallel bars, scoring 30.100 and 29.300, respectively, over the two days.

Eddie Penev of Rochester, N.Y./ U.S. Olympic Training Center, won the floor exercise title with a 29.950 total. 2016 Olympic bronze medalist Alex Naddour of Gilbert, Ariz./ USA Youth Fitness, is the pommel horse champion, totaling 30.100.

Anthony McCallum of Columbia, S.C./University of Michigan, took top honors on the vault with a twoday score of 29.850, while 2016 Olympian Chris Brooks of Houston/U.S. Olympic Training Center, posted the top score on high bar at 29.550.

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For complete results, photos, videos and more visit WinterCup.com.

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Following the competition, USA Gymnastics named the members of the U.S. Men’s Senior National Team. Moldauer, Modi, Bower, and Whittenburg automatically earned berths to the team based on their all-around results. In addition to Bailey, Penev, Naddour, and Brooks, Grant Breckenridge of Libertyville, Ill./Stanford University; Hunter Justus of Cypress, Texas/University of Oklahoma; Sean Melton of Orlando/Ohio State University; Robert Neff of Brookfield, Wis./Stanford University; and Kanji Oyama of Huntington Beach, Calif./University of Oklahoma; were selected by the Men’s Program Committee to the team. Two-time Olympians Jake Dalton of Sparks, Nev./University of Oklahoma, and Sam Mikulak of Newport Beach, Calif./U.S. Olympic Training Center, petitioned onto the team due to injury.

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Rhythmic Challenge

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ZENG WINS TITLE

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Laura ZENG

2016 Olympian Laura Zeng of Libertyville, Ill./ North Shore Rhythmic Gymnastics Center, won the senior all-around title at the Rhythmic Challenge in Indianapolis. The event was held at Butler University’s Health and Recreation Center.

In the senior competition, Zeng posted a 65.900 just ahead of teammate Evita Griskenas of Orland Park, Ill./North Shore Rhythmic Gymnastics Center, who earned a 65.650 in the all-around.

First-year senior Lili Mizuno of Brentwood, Calif., completed the allaround sweep for North Shore, scoring 64.750 for the bronze medal.

Griskenas took top honors for hoop (18.150) and clubs (16.100), while Mizuno took the title for ball, scoring 17.000. Zeng tied for the ribbon title with Heather Chan of South Pasadena, Calif./ Irene School of Rhythmic Gymnastics, at 15.400.

In senior group competition, the national group, which trains at North Shore Rhythmic Gymnastics Center, took the title with a 31.000 total ahead of the group from Rhythmic Dreams.

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TEAM USA, O’KEEFE WIN JUNIOR TITLES

AT 2017 GYMNIX INTERNATIONAL U.S. COLLECTS 11 MEDALS IN MONTREAL T

eam USA won the junior team title, as reigning junior U.S. champion Maile O’Keefe of Las Vegas/Salcianu Elite, grabbed the allaround title at the Gymnix International in Montreal, Canada. The U.S.’s Gabby Perea of Geneva, Ill./Legacy Elite, finished second in the junior all-around standings, with Emma Malabuyo of Flower Mound, Texas/ Texas Dreams, in fourth. Sunisa Lee of Saint Paul, Minn./Midwest Gymnastics Center, rounded out the gold medal team, taking 14th in the allaround standings.

The U.S. posted a 166.603 total to take the junior title ahead of Italy (164.038) and Russia (157.405). They posted team totals of 43.801, vault; 41.501, uneven bars; 39.967, balance beam, and 41.334, floor exercise.

In the all-around, O’Keefe had a 55.934 total, followed by Perea’s

55.700. Malabuyo earned a 54.135 total and Lee scored 50.201.

The U.S. took home eight medals during the junior apparatus finals.

GABBY PEREA

Malabuyo took top honors on vault with a 14.388, followed by O’Keefe in second (14.100). Asia D’Amato of Italy was third (13.975).

Perea won the uneven bars crown with her 14.600. Lee earned the silver medal (14.125), followed by Italy’s Eliza Iorio in third (13.725). Perea clinched her second gold medal on the balance beam with a 13.825. Canada’s Zoé Allaire-Bourgie finished second (13.575), and O’Keefe captured the bronze medal (12.575).

EMMA MALABUYO

On floor exercise, O’Keefe and Perea tied for the title, each scoring a 13.675. Canada’s Ana Padurariu claimed the bronze medal with a score of 13.500.

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TAKE TOP HONORS

NASTIA LIUKIN CUP

BY LYNN RUTHERFORD

A

soulful helping of old-school Motown magic with a side order of Prince, Drake and Beyoncé

won the day for Kai Rivers, who captured the senior title at the 2017 Nastia Liukin Cup held Friday at Newark, N.J.’s Prudential Center.

The 16-year-old from Franklin, Mich., trailed the leaders until the final rotation, when her fun and flashy floor routine ignited the crowd and earned 9.825 points to propel her from fifth place to first.

“I was really nervous for it,” Rivers, who trains at Twistars USA under John and Kathryn Geddert, said.

“I had to run through the corrections a thousand times in my head.

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ANDREA LI did pull it out, but I was really tired. It was not easy.”

Rivers may have felt tired, but the energy level of her routine never flagged. She stuck her landings, including a double layout in her first tumbling pass, and showed off some easy, natural dance moves.

“I got a new routine this year, I made the music,” she explained. “I can get into this routine more than ever. I just put my favorite songs in it, and some of my mom’s favorite songs; my coach gave me that option. My mom picked the Prince song, and “Ain’t No Mountain High Enough” was in it, too.”

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last year, was second with 38.525 points. The 17-year-old from nearby Hillsborough, N.J., shone in vault, where she earned a first-place score of 9.825 for her Yurchenko double full, as well as in floor.

“Going into vault, I just have to think, ‘Let it happen, don’t force anything,’” Lukacs said. “I came out with a good landing on my first (vault), a little off on my second but not too bad.”

Legacy Elite’s Andrea Li, winner of the junior event here last year, took third place thanks to earning the evening’s highest scores in bars and beam. She finished with 38.425 points.

“I believe I hit all my handstands (on bars), and I felt tighter and more controlled today,” Li, 15, said. “I’m really focused on training hard and making it to nationals.”

The junior event was a bit less of a nail biter. Carly Bauman of West Des Moines, Iowa, gained the highest

scores in both vault and the uneven bars, and also put out solid beam and floor routines. She claimed the title with 38.425 points.

“Each event went really well, and it was fun competing on podium, which we don’t usually do,” Bauman, who trains 30 hours a week at Chow’s Gymnastics and Dance, said. “Beam was a little shaky; next time, I’ll do better. It was a really different and fun meet.”

Rose Casali, a 13-year-old from Weddington, N.C., who trains at Southeastern Gymnastics Center, was strong in all four events and especially impressive in beam, where she earned a 9.675. She ended with a 38.075 in the all-around for second place.

“I bounced around from first to second place the whole night, which I wasn’t really expecting,” she said. “I think my two best events were floor and beam, which are my best events in practice. We have a few weeks before state, and I want to go back to the gym and work on my confidence in all the skills.”

Third place in juniors went to one of Casali’s training partners at Southeastern, Lali Dekanoidze, who earned a 37.825.

LALI DEKANOIDZE

RACHAEL LUKACS

ROSE CASALI

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